Where we'll be next week.
It appears to be a place that does not suck.
We shall see.
It appears to be a place that does not suck.
We shall see.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Nostalgia
The temperature dropped yesterday....started off kind of hot but by mid-afternoon was cloudy, windy, and even a bit chilly. A light rain began around 7, when we left the house to catch a movie.
Midnight In Paris is Woody Allen's latest. Set in Paris, it's about a guy nostalgic for a time never knew: 1920's Paris. Through some magic or another, he finds himself able to visit that era after midnight each night, becoming more and more drawn into that world and the people who inhabit it, like Hemingway, Picasso, Gertrude Stein, etc. He has to decide if he wants to stay permanently in that era, or stay in the present day with his insufferable, shallow financee.
But it ends with the man realizing (to steal a line from a popular song of decades ago) that "these are the good old days." If (my interpretation) you don't waste these "good old days" in what Buddhists might call Wrong Living. And what is Right Living? You have to figure that out for yourself. In the movie, Gil realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman and while standing on a bridge across the Seine, meets a woman he'd encountered several times before at an antique dealership. It begins to rain. They both like walking in the rain, and walk off together.
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We're going to Greece tomorrow morning for a week.
Depending on the reliablility of the hotel's internet connection, I'll try to post daily updates.
If you don't hear from me for a week or so, it means the connection is poor.
Or that we've decided to go back in time and live in ancient Greece.
Midnight In Paris is Woody Allen's latest. Set in Paris, it's about a guy nostalgic for a time never knew: 1920's Paris. Through some magic or another, he finds himself able to visit that era after midnight each night, becoming more and more drawn into that world and the people who inhabit it, like Hemingway, Picasso, Gertrude Stein, etc. He has to decide if he wants to stay permanently in that era, or stay in the present day with his insufferable, shallow financee.
But it ends with the man realizing (to steal a line from a popular song of decades ago) that "these are the good old days." If (my interpretation) you don't waste these "good old days" in what Buddhists might call Wrong Living. And what is Right Living? You have to figure that out for yourself. In the movie, Gil realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman and while standing on a bridge across the Seine, meets a woman he'd encountered several times before at an antique dealership. It begins to rain. They both like walking in the rain, and walk off together.
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We're going to Greece tomorrow morning for a week.
Depending on the reliablility of the hotel's internet connection, I'll try to post daily updates.
If you don't hear from me for a week or so, it means the connection is poor.
Or that we've decided to go back in time and live in ancient Greece.
Next stop: Santorini
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